The Oil Industry: Resurgence or Death Throes?
Like many, I've been completely gobsmacked by the plummeting oil price - down from over $100 a barrel at the start of the year to...
Green Communications – Secrets of the Sustainability Masterminds
Dec 12, 2014
Last Friday saw the final Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group of 2014. We met in the fantastic Biscuit Factory art gallery in Newcastle, surrounded by some wonderful...
You’ve got to celebrate success in sustainability
Dec 10, 2014
On Friday night, my partner and I watched her hometown football team Blyth Spartans - a bunch of spirited part-timers - beat the full time...
Green Communications: Are you speaking to the right audience?
Dec 8, 2014
Last Friday saw the last Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group meeting of 2015 - we were discussing green communications. I'll be posting some of the multitude...
Message to George: “Green = Growth”
Dec 5, 2014
I sat through Wednesday's Autumn Statement from UK Chancellor George Osborne with increasing disappointment. Normally such a set piece speech will have at the very least...
Thinking about a career in sustainability?
Dec 3, 2014
In this edition of Ask Gareth, I describe how I switched career into sustainability from engineering and how you can do the same, no matter...
What makes a company ‘good’?
Dec 1, 2014
There was an article in the Observer yesterday on Simon Anholt and his 'Good Countries Index' that was so fascinating, I immediately checked out Anholt's TEDtalk (above)....
You can’t push a circular economy
Nov 28, 2014
Yesterday I went to the North East Recycling Forum (NERF) Annual Conference, which as usual, punched way above its weight when it comes to speakers....
What do we need to solve climate change? A hashtag!
Nov 26, 2014
Yesterday the UK's Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) launched a tweetathon around the hashtag #BackClimateAction. The idea was that each hour between 9am...
Winter is coming*… or is it?
Nov 24, 2014
My eldest son, Harry, is doing a project at school entitled 'The Angry Earth.' Last night over dinner he suddenly shouted "I hate global...